[RFC 4/5] workqueue: Warn when a rescuer could not be created

[Petr Mladek]

Rescuers are created when a workqueue with WQ_MEM_RECLAIM is allocated.
It typically happens during the system boot.

systemd switches the root filesystem from initrd to the booted system
during boot. It kills processes that block the switch for too long.
One of the process might be modprobe that tries to create a workqueue.

These problems are hard to reproduce. Also alloc_workqueue() does not
pass the error code. Make the debugging easier by printing a warning,
similar to create_worker().

Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@xxxxxxxx>
---
 kernel/workqueue.c | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c
index 5f3327e119b4..58b835420435 100644
--- a/kernel/workqueue.c
+++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
@@ -1914,9 +1914,11 @@ static void worker_detach_from_pool(struct worker *worker)
 static int create_worker_failed;
 static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(create_worker_failed_lock);
 
-static __printf(2, 3) __cold
-void __print_create_worker_failure(long err, const char *fmt, ...)
+static __printf(3, 4) __cold
+void __print_create_worker_failure(bool is_rescuer, long err, const char *fmt, ...)
 {
+	bool one_off_failure;
+
 	spin_lock_irq(&create_worker_failed_lock);
 
 	/*
@@ -1925,7 +1927,8 @@ void __print_create_worker_failure(long err, const char *fmt, ...)
 	 * touch watchdogs so that more frequent messages would prevent
 	 * reaching the watchdog thresh.
 	 */
-	if (!create_worker_failed || err == -EINTR) {
+	one_off_failure = (err == -EINTR || is_rescuer);
+	if (!create_worker_failed || one_off_failure) {
 		va_list args;
 
 		va_start(args, fmt);
@@ -1933,7 +1936,7 @@ void __print_create_worker_failure(long err, const char *fmt, ...)
 		va_end(args);
 	}
 
-	if (err != -EINTR)
+	if (!one_off_failure)
 		create_worker_failed++;
 
 	spin_unlock_irq(&create_worker_failed_lock);
@@ -1943,7 +1946,9 @@ void __print_create_worker_failure(long err, const char *fmt, ...)
 	do {					\
 		long _err = err;		\
 						\
-		__print_create_worker_failure(_err, KERN_WARNING msg ":%pe\n", (void *)_err); \
+		__print_create_worker_failure(false, _err,			\
+					      KERN_WARNING msg ":%pe\n",	\
+					      (void *)_err);			\
 	} while (0)
 
 static void print_create_worker_success(void)
@@ -4323,6 +4328,15 @@ static int wq_clamp_max_active(int max_active, unsigned int flags,
 	return clamp_val(max_active, 1, lim);
 }
 
+#define print_create_rescuer_failure(msg, name, err)			\
+	do {								\
+		long _err = err;					\
+									\
+		__print_create_worker_failure(true, _err,		\
+					      KERN_WARNING msg ": %s :%pe\n",	\
+					      name, (void *)_err);	\
+	} while (0)
+
 /*
  * Workqueues which may be used during memory reclaim should have a rescuer
  * to guarantee forward progress.
@@ -4336,13 +4350,18 @@ static int init_rescuer(struct workqueue_struct *wq)
 		return 0;
 
 	rescuer = alloc_worker(NUMA_NO_NODE);
-	if (!rescuer)
+	if (!rescuer) {
+		print_create_rescuer_failure("workqueue: Failed to allocate a rescuer",
+					     wq->name, -ENOMEM);
 		return -ENOMEM;
+	}
 
 	rescuer->rescue_wq = wq;
 	rescuer->task = kthread_create(rescuer_thread, rescuer, "%s", wq->name);
 	if (IS_ERR(rescuer->task)) {
 		ret = PTR_ERR(rescuer->task);
+		print_create_rescuer_failure("workqueue: Failed to create a rescuer thread",
+					     wq->name, ret);
 		kfree(rescuer);
 		return ret;
 	}
-- 
2.35.3